gendesc(1)

gendesc1

Gendesc documentation

Usage

gendesc [ -h | –help ] [ -v | –version ]

gendesc [{-h | –help}] [{-v | –version}] [{-o | –output-filename filename}] inputfile

Overview

Convert plain text test case descriptions into a format as understood by genhtml. inputfile needs to observe the following format:

For each test case:

•

one line containing the test case name beginning at the start of the line

•

one or more lines containing the test case description indented with at least one whitespace character (tab or space)

Example input file:

test01
    An example test case description.
    Description continued
test42
    Supposedly the answer to most of your questions

Note: valid test names can consist of letters, decimal digits and the underscore character (‘_’).

Options

-h, –help

Print a short help text, then exit.

-v, –version

Print version number, then exit.

-o filename, –output-filename filename

Write description data to filename.

By default, output is written to STDOUT.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7
  6. 8
  7. 9–10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

--help until Debian 13 (Trixie); --output-filename until Debian 13 (Trixie); --version until Debian 13 (Trixie); -h until Debian 13 (Trixie); -o until Debian 13 (Trixie); -v until Debian 13 (Trixie).

Author

Peter Oberparleiter <<[email protected]>>

From lcov 2.6-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.